Bhaskara-prabha

Chapter 1. Cangadeva's inscription of 1207.- Chapter 2. The legend of Lilavati.- Chapter 3. The poetical face of the mathematical and astronomical works of Bhaskaracarya.- Chapter 4. The lila of the Lilavati.- Chapter 5. Ganesa Daivajña's upapattis for some rules in the Lilavati.- Chapter 6. A study of two Malayalam commentaries on the Lilavati.- Chapter 7. Mensuration of quadrilaterals in the Lilavati.- Chapter 8. Ankapasa in the Lilavati.- Chapter 9. The Bijaganita of Bhaskaracarya: Some highlights.- Chapter 10. A critical study of algorithms in the Karanisadvidham.- Chapter 11. Grahaganitadhyaya of Bhaskaracarya's Siddhantasiromani.- Chapter 12. Bhaskaracarya and Ksayamasa.- Chapter 13. The Vasanabhasyasof Bhaskaracarya.- Chapter 14. The production of Sines: Bhaskaracarya's Jyotpatti.- Chapter 15. An application of the addition and subtraction formula for the Sine in Indian astronomy.- Chapter 16. Astronomical instruments in Bhaskaracarya's Siddhantasiromani.- Chapter 17. Bhojaraja and Bhaskara: Precursors of Karanakutuhala algebraic approximation formulas in the Rajamrganka.- Chapter 18. Persian translations of Bhaskara's Sanskrit texts and their impact in the following centuries.- Chapter 19. The use of Bhutasankhyas in the Lilavati of Bhaskaracarya.- Chapter 20. Implications of Bhaskaracarya's Lilavati to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics.

K. RAMASUBRAMANIAN is a professor at the Cell for the Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He holds a doctorate degree in Theoretical Physics, a master's degree in Sanskrit, and a bachelor's degree in Engineering-a weird but formidable combination of subjects to do multi-disciplinary research. He was honoured with the coveted title "Vidvat Pravara" by the Shankaracharya of Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham, Karnataka, India, for completing a rigorous course in Advaita Vedanta (a 14-semester program), in 2003. He is one of the authors who prepared detailed explanatory notes of the celebrated works Ganita-yuktibhasa (rationales in mathematical astronomy), Tantrasangraha and Karana-paddhati, which bring out the seminal contributions of the Kerala School of Astronomers and Mathematicians. He was conferred the prestigious award of theMaharsi Badarayana Vyas Samman by the then President of India, in 2008, and the R. C. Gupta Endowment Lecture Award by the National Academy of Sciences India, in 2010. He is a recipient of several other awards and coveted titles as well. From 2013, he serves as an elected council member of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is also a member of various other national and international bodies.TAKAO HAYASHI is an emeritus professor of history of science from Doshisha University, Japan. He worked on the Bakhshali manuscript to obtain his PhD from Brown University in 1985. He focused on Indian mathematics history, and specifically the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving Indian text on mathematics. He was a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is a recipient of the Salomon Reinach Foundation Prize from French Institute (2001), Publication Prize from Mathematical Society of Japan (2005), and Kuwabara Prize fromthe History of Mathematics Society of

"The Bhaskaraprabha with its various scholarly contributions will surely be a welcome and useful contribution to any library." (Sita Sundar Ram, zbMATH 1426.01006, 2020)
"Students of the mathematics of India will, of course, find much here that is useful, and at least some of the articles will interest more general readers as well." (Fernando Q. Gouvêa, MAA Reviews, October 13, 2019)